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A man is accused of fatally stabbing his neighbor then raping the victim’s wife and daughter in a “horrific” attack.
Timothy Ernest Legard, 50, now faces 11 felony counts including first-degree murder, two counts of kidnapping, and first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
Legard was neighbors with the unidentified victims in Pontiac, Michigan, according to Fox 2 Detroit. Police say that around 6am on September 18, Legard went to the house and met the man as he was helping his daughter get ready for school.
Legard then stabbed the victim. The suspect went into the home where he sexually assaulted both the man’s wife and daughter, according to the report.
The two victims escaped the home and ran to another house to call 911.
Police arrived and found the man dead in the driveway with a stab wound to the chest. Authorities found Legard walking nearby and he was arrested.
No motive has been released in the case.
"There’s going to be a lifetime of emotional scars from this," Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said, according to Fox 2. "I don’t know how you get over that kind of assault, that kind of absolute victimization of these two completely innocent people."
Legard is being held in jail pending an arraignment hearing.
"This was an absolutely brutal and horrific attack on a family," Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said. "First-degree Murder, first-degree criminal sexual conduct, and kidnapping are life offenses, and they are the most serious charges my office brings.”
